James Welling
Follow This Artist

Born: 1951

Hometown: Hartford, CT

Lives and Works: Los Angeles, CA

Education: MFA/BFA, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA, 1974
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1971

James Welling Bio

About The Artist

Part artist, part mad scientist, James Welling pushes the limits of photography through experimentation and exploration of materials. Self-trained and fueled by curiosity, there doesn't seem to be a photographic process or tool he has yet to attempt. His abstractions are rendered as photograms, traditional gelatin silver prints, Polaroids, and digitally processed prints. He uses shutterless, digital, and vintage view cameras to create his images; in some cases he removes the camera altogether and works directly on film. Despite his wide range of methods, we see one common thread in all of his works: light.

James Welling Gallery Art

Galleries

David Zwirner, New York, NY
Donald Young, Chicago, IL
Galerie Näechst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwäelder, Vienna, Austria
Gallerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
Maureen Paley, London, England
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

James Welling Permanent Collections

Select Permanent Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY